Articles on Tsunami and Imperialism

Tsunami, Aid & Imperialism, ML INTERNATIONAL NEWSLETTER, March-April 2005

Tsunami, US and India, February 2005

Articles on Nepal

Ambush Journalism, August 05, 2006, INSN, ZNet

The Historic Agreement in Nepal and the Immediate Challenge, June 19 2006, ZNet

Angels and Demons in the People's Movement in Nepal, May 22, 2006, INSN, Counterpunch, ZNet

The Royal Nepalese Army and the imperialist agency in Nepal, May 10, 2006, INSN. A slightly different version in Counterpunch (May 11, 2006), Countercurrents, ZNet

In Nepal, the saga of compromise and struggle continues, April 26, 2006, Countercurrents, Counterpunch , ZNet

Pure-and-Simple Revolutions in Nepal and Venezuela, April 21, 2006, Counterpunch, Countercurrents

And now, Nepalis say - YA BASTA!!!, April 10, 2006, Versions - INSN, COUNTERCURRENTS, COUNTERPUNCH

Ceasefire and Democracy in Nepal - The Global Semantics, April 5 2006, ZNET INSN COUNTERCURRENTS

Nepal & Venezuela, INTERNATIONAL NEPAL SOLIDARITY NETWORK. Reproduced in znet, dissident voice, countercurrents, MRzine

Recent Developments in Nepal: Problems & Prospects, ML INTERNATIONAL NEWSLETTER, March-April 2006. Reproduced in INSN

What the US Ambassador Taught Nepalis, COUNTERPUNCH & ZNET

The 12-point Agreement and the Future of Democracy in Nepal, ML INTERNATIONAL NEWSLETTER, January-February 2006

Pre-1990 ‘Democratic’ Experiments in Nepal, ML INTERNATIONAL NEWSLETTER, September-October 2005

State, Economy & Class Struggle in Nepal, ML INTERNATIONAL NEWSLETTER, July-August 2005

The Royal Coup in Nepal, COUNTERPUNCH, February 25, 2005

Articles on Labour

Ways of Waste Management, The Economic Times, August 08, 2005

Marxism and Labour History II, Economic & Political Weekly (EPW) Letter to Editor, January 4, 2003

Marxism and Labour History I, Economic & Political Weekly (EPW) Letter to Editor, February 23, 2002

Disorganising the Organised - Proposed Changes in Labour Laws, Liberation, April 2001

New Textile Policy - A Policy of Dark Intent, Liberation, December 2000 (with some modifications)

Articles on Indian Politics

Indian Fascists find Bush their "National"

Stability in West Bengal: The CPI(M)’s Secret

Indian Politics in the context of the Iranian Crisis, November 2005

Advani's Jinnah Drama, June 2005

Bush’s Re-Election and the ‘Indian Dream’, ML INTERNATIONAL NEWSLETTER, January-February 2005

Linguistic-Communal Politics and Class Conflict in India, SOCIALIST REGISTER 2003: FIGHTING IDENTITIES

Articles on Indian Foreign Policy & International Political Economy

Dinner with George and Manmohan: Bush in India, Counterpunch, March 03 2006

Bush's Passage to India: Why Does India Carry His Water?, Counterpunch, February 25 2006

The India-China relationship: What we need to know, January 2006

India's Strategy of Realignment, December 2005

Indian Politics in the context of the Iranian Crisis, November 2005

Defining "National Interests" in Indian Foreign Policy, October 2005

India’s “Persian Puzzle” – A Possible Solution, October 2005 (Republished in INSAF NEWSLETTER, November 2005)

Tsunami, Aid & Imperialism, ML INTERNATIONAL NEWSLETTER, March-April 2005

The Royal Coup in Nepal & Global Imperialist Designs, COUNTERPUNCH, February 25, 2005

Bush’s Re-Election and the ‘Indian Dream’, ML INTERNATIONAL NEWSLETTER, January-February 2005

Tsunami, US and India, February 2005

Articles on World Politics

"The last shall be first, and the first last"

Hobson's Imperialism And The Desperate Uncle Sam As Naked As Ever, Countercurrents, March 29 2006

Bush's Ports Affair, Countercurrents, March 13 2006

Cartoons, Anti-Semitism and the “Aestheticisation of Politics”, February 7 2006

Volcker's Report Reread: Business, not Corruption, November 2005

The Politics of Imperialism and Counterstrategies

THE POLITICS OF IMPERIALISM AND COUNTERSTRATEGIES

Edited by: by Pratyush Chandra . Anuradha Ghosh . Ravi Kumar
Aakar Books, New Delhi, 2004
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Contributors
Samir Amin . Massimo De Angelis . Werner Bonefeld . Ronald H. Chilcote . Ana Cecilia Dinerstein . John Bellamy Foster . John Holloway . Nathalia E. Jaramillo . Doug Lorimer . Peter McLaren . Prabhat Patnaik . James Petras . William K. Tabb

The God's Cowboy Warrior holds world to ransom. White, Green and Saffron guards all play their part in this Grand Inquisition, extending and intensifying it. The papers in this collection grounding themselves in diverse Marxist traditions are united in their pursuit to understand the ongoing political conflicts around the globe. Imperialism and all its de-humanised representations are realisations of the systemic logic of capitalism. If alternative has to be anti-capitalist, its evolving forms/contents have to be identified. One cannot simply go on rhetoricising ad infinitum - "another world is possible". Even if we refrain from identifying that 'world', the system will define it in its own way. "Anti-capitalist indifference" leads to barbaric conclusions, reflected in nationalist vandalism of RSS and Shiv Sena in India, Al Qaeda in the Middle East, anti-immigrant racist resurgence in the "advanced" societies - "anti-capitalist capitalism". There is always a danger of being trapped in the systemic dungeon of mystifications reproducing the bourgeois society if the processes leading towards it are not comprehended; and it needs courage to break that trap. The Argentine, Venezuelan, Mexican and Bolivian upheavals and the officialisation of sections of the dissent require explanation. Here, we have some representative Marxist modes of understanding the politics in present-day Capitalism, i.e., the politics of Imperialism and forces against it.

ISBN 81-87879-35-1
ISBN 81-87879-36-X

Reviews (available online):
Anjan Chakrabarti, Searching for Imperialism in the Era of Globalisation, Contemporary Issues and Ideas in Social Sciences, November 2005,

Arindam Sen, Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century, Liberation, November 2004